Today’s Out-of-home advertising and media plans need a strong digital backing and its integral that marketing and advertising leaders ensure they team the right technologies with proven best practices to achieve ROI. Matt Schmitt, Digital Media Executive and Strategist, Reflect Systems Inc shares more in this chat: _________ Tell us a little about yourself Matt…we’d love to hear about your role, a typical day at work? I’ve enjoyed a career where I’ve always worked in media and digital content, from broadcast to…

New research by Unruly finds 100% of digital media agencies and 77% of brands plan to invest more in CTV over next 12 months due to better ROI and targeting compared to linear TV More than two-thirds (67%) of UK advertising professionals think connected TV (CTV) is a more effective ad channel than linear TV. That’s according to new research released today by leading ad platform Unruly, which also revealed that 100% of media agencies and 77% of brands plan to invest more in CTV over the next 12 months. Marketing…

Aleph Holding, global partner to the world's biggest digital media players, has announced today that it closed a private placement funding round. Through its complementary suite of digital media service companies - including Httpool,  Internet Media Services, Wise.Blue and Social Snack - Aleph provides leading digital platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, and Snapchat access to new geographies and under-served markets, while helping advertisers maximize the value of their investments, through proprietary technology. Prior to…

Digital marketing teams within ecommerce and direct-to-consumer brands will be offered enhanced capability to in-house programmatic digital media campaigns, with the launch of a market-defining SaaS platform by Match2One. Match2One’s subscription platform is aimed at the growing number of mid-market ecommerce and DTC brands, aiming to drive growth through programmatic media investment. It enables in-house teams to avoid costly agency relationships and take direct control of high-performance optimisation technology.…

Transaction Enhances DMS Ability To Create Real-Time Connections Between Consumers & Digital Advertisers Across Auto, Home, Health And Life Insurance Plus Other Top Consumer Verticals Digital Media Solutions, Inc., a leading provider of technology-enabled digital performance advertising solutions connecting consumers and advertisers within auto, home, health and life insurance plus a long list of top consumer verticals, announces the addition of mobile and web push notification technology and solutions with the…

Vinco Ventures, Inc. Executes Agreement to Complete a Plan of Merger with ZASH Vinco Ventures, Inc. and ZASH Global Media and Entertainment Corporation (“ZASH”), a U.S. based entertainment, content and distribution company, announced the signing of an Agreement to Complete a Plan of Merger subject to certain conditions, creating exciting acceleration and growth in live-streaming content, video-sharing, distribution and production within its own ecosystem. ZASH, led by media disruptor and financier Ted Farnsworth, Music.ly…

MediaMath SOURCE Digital Media Ecosystem Now Available Globally MediaMath, acclaimed independent advertising technology company for leading brands and agencies, announced global availability of the SOURCE digital media ecosystem, delivering upon the promise it made one year ago to develop a 100 percent accountable, addressable and aligned digital media supply chain by the end of 2020. Working with industry-leading partners to align the interests of brands, agencies, publishers and technology providers, MediaMath has created…

The company has been recognized by the Los Angeles Business Journal at the top of its 2020 list following incredible growth in company revenue over a three-year period H Code, the largest Hispanic digital media company in the U.S., has been recently named #10 in the Los Angeles Business Journal (LABJ)’s 100 Fastest Growing Private Companies list following considerable revenue growth over three years. H Code shares this honor with other leading companies based in Los Angeles, including Caulipower, Scorpion, MagicLinks,…

New Technology Greatly Reduces Toil and Time to Perfect Media Campaigns Yagle, an international martech and analytics startup, has created and launched globally after the successful completion of its beta launch. Yagle is a fast and effective method for digital media assessment – utilizing artificial intelligence — for businesses in any industry. Media planners often go to great lengths to create a program for clients using a variety of methods or working with several vendors. It is nearly impossible to efficiently analyze…

In-house and hybrid trading models now used by 84% of respondents Programmatic trading channels for WFA Members account for more than two fifths (41%) of global digital media investment, up from 16% in 2016. Regional splits show the current figure has hit 50% in the US, 31% in Europe and 20% in APAC. The WFA’s Programmatic, Data & Technology Global Survey 2020 highlights the uneven pace of adoption of programmatic around the globe and the mix of models being used, even in the same company. However, the global trend –…

Beeswax Bidder-as-a-Service customers can now leverage DV pre-bid solutions to authenticate media quality & performance across campaigns DoubleVerify ("DV"), a leading software platform for digital media measurement, data and analytics, announced a new partnership with Beeswax, the Bidder-as-a-Service (BaaS) platform. Beeswax customers can now authenticate the quality and performance of their campaigns using DoubleVerify's pre-bid solutions across fraud, viewability, brand safety, and standard contextual targeting..…

Leading digital media company partners with the nation’s largest amusement vending operator, expanding Digital-Out-of-Home Media platform at point of sale to drive awareness for brands and new revenue streams for retailers Nearly 90% of Americans say they shop for groceries differently because of Covid-19, with 44% spending more money on each grocery store visit. That’s why Vengo, the leader in digital kiosk technology, announced the launch of its Digital-out-of-Home (DOOH) media platform for retail marketers and…

Governing Group of Industry Leaders Includes 4A’s, ANA, IAB, IAB Tech Lab, NAI, WFA, P&G, Unilever, Ford, GM, IBM, NBCUniversal,IPG, Publicis, Adobe, LiveRamp, MediaMath, The Trade Desk Leading trade associations and companies representing every sector of the global advertising industry today joined together to launch the Partnership for Responsible Addressable Media, an initiative to advance and protect critical functionalities like customization and analytics for digital media and advertising, while safeguarding…

Company Taps Former LinkedIn Executive, Nachiket Deole, to Lead DV in India DoubleVerify ("DV"), a leading software platform for digital media measurement, data and analytics, today announced the expansion of its business into the India market. DV has appointed digital media veteran, Nachiket Deole, to lead business operations in the region. Deole will be based in DV’s Mumbai office. Deole is charged with setting up DV’s operations in India and driving adoption of DV’s best-in-class measurement and programmatic…

Adobe has announced its Q2 2020 revenue results. In the second quarter of fiscal year 2020 ending 29 May, the world’s leading digital media and most respected customer experience management company, Adobe has earned a quarterly revenue of $3.13 billion, out of which digital media made up for a lion share ($2.23 billion). Creative and Document Cloud segment continued to play their part as Adobe’s most preferred solutions, even as Digital Experience and Advertising Cloud have a good run in a very competitive territory. At…

The Meredith Corporation Board of Directors on May 12, 2020, appointed Greg Coleman to the Meredith Board as a Class I Director, effective at its next Board meeting in August 2020. Coleman will stand for election for a full three-year term expiring in November 2023 at Meredith's Annual Shareholders Meeting in November 2020. Coleman currently is a Board advisor for BuzzFeed and previously served as the digital media company's President. Most recently, Coleman was the President of advertising technology company Criteo. He…

Institutional Investors Have Committed $100 million Cash in Private Placement to Close Concurrently with Transaction Digital Media Solutions Holdings, LLCand Leo Holdings Corp., a publicly traded special purpose acquisition company, announced today that Leo and DMS have entered into a definitive business combination agreement (the “Business Combination Agreement”). DMS is a martech-enabled business capitalizing on the secular shift of advertising dollars from traditional offline channels to online digital channels by…

Levels Beyond announced that it has named media technology pioneer, innovator, and former President of Verizon Digital Media Services, Ralf Jacob, to its Board of Directors. This appointment is effective immediately and supports the continued growth of Levels Beyond by enhancing its visionary leadership facilities. Jacob further strengthens the marked expansion of the Levels Beyond Board, joining recent appointee Skarpi Hedinnson, formerly of Disney Digital and current CTO of SoFi Stadium and the Los Angeles Rams.…

New daily and weekly options capture audience behavior in cross-media and gaming Comscore, a trusted partner for planning, transacting, and evaluating media across platforms, announced a new series of weekly custom reporting options to better understand rapidly-changing consumer behaviors in our new social-distancing world. Marketing Technology News: Finding it Extremely Hard to Attract Audience to Your Blogs? Answer, SEO Built on the granular audience insights derived from Comscore's syndicated products, the new…

CATS Specification Complements OpenRTB, Standardizing Ad Requests for Direct Media Transactions In Public Comment until April 24 IAB Tech Lab released CATS (Common Ad Transport Standard) for public comment for a 30-day period until April 24. Designed to complement OpenRTB (Real-Time Bidding), CATS is a new standard to execute ad requests in non-biddable ad transactions, and aims to: Standardize server-to-server communications Solve for limitations in payload size in HTTP GET macro-based implementations, which…